GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs Radeon RX 580 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	296
Place by popularity	not in top-100	20
Power efficiency	no data	28.50
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Ellesmere	GA107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	29 June 2016 (8 years ago)	17 December 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	2048
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	1185 MHz
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz	1477 MHz
Number of transistors	5,700 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	182.3	94.53
Floating-point processing power	5.834 TFLOPS	6.05 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	144	64
Tensor Cores	no data	256
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	112.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	+
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 June 2016	17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	45 Watt

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